People of the Internet!

I think you should all get yourself onto this video and watch and enjoy.

And then go and download the song.

It's for Children in Need, which means it's for charity which means you can enjoy some music and do something good for the world. Which is awesome.

So...yeah...do it!

Bye

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Have you guys seen

Bridget Jones' Diary?

I just watched it and I'd forgotten how much I frickin' love that film. And yes, I realise just how much of a girl I sound right now.

But it got me thinking: when you rewatch it, there are a lot of things that seem really dated about the film. Her clothes, for instance. Or Hugh Grant's hair. But of all these, the most dated is the concept of the diary itself. If the film had been made today, Bridget would've had a blog and a Twitter account, and it just wouldn't have been the same.

But some day, our children or our children's children will be looking back on things that heavily feature Facebook or MySpace and be like, "That's seriously how you used to communicate? You didn't have hologram phone watches? How weird!"

Yeah...it just occurred to me how fleeting the latest pop culture or online fad is, but still we get all caught up in having the newest thing when it'll probably be hopelessly passe in the next few months - weeks, even.

Anyway, after being all deep and stuff (because that's deep for me), I realised that I suspect that I will grow up to be like Bridget. Not a smoker, hopefully. But not a great cook, prone to making a fool of myself in social situations, a habit for falling for completely the wrong person...yep, I am just Bridget Jones fifteen years earlier. And that is a pretty depressing thought.

But if I can have Hugh Grant and Colin Firth throwing themselves through restaurant windows for me, who am I to complain?

So...yeah...this was a pointless blog.

Tell me something interesting in the comments. I don't care what it is, but something I probably didn't know before.

Bye

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So, it's done.

I've sent off my university application. Well, it has to go through the school first for my reference and I still haven't paid, but I've sent it. It can't be changed.

Having done that, it's made everything else seem so much closer - Christmas (which I haven't even thought about yet), resits in January (yeah right, I didn't revise for the exams the first time round. I probably won't do anything until the Christmas holidays), the show I'm in in February, actual exams in the spring and summer.

And then prom. Prom! Apparently, if we want to stay in the hotel afterwards, we have to book soon. I've barely thought about it - I don't know what I'm wearing, who I'm going with, whether or not getting a limo is really tacky, if I want to fork out and get my hair done professionally. And on top of that, who is paying for all of this? I'm sure my parents will contribute, but I don't know how keen they'll be.

Aargh stress!

Bye

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I am so bad at this.

I have typed three blog entries and saved them without posting them because I wanted to add photos, and then never added photos and now they are irrelevant.

What's happened since I last blogged?

I did have a detailed description of my trip to London to see John Barrowman in La Cage Aux Folles, but I'll be brief - it was brilliant, John was fantastic as always and he signed my programme.

And then it was Halloween and was Elphaba from Wicked (Google it if you don't know, but I like to think that you all get it). My friend was Galinda:



So yeah...now we're back at school and it's hell. But today was pretty good.

Did any of you watch that Grease: the School Musical on Sky recently? Don't worry, there is a point to this question - it does link in with my good day. Well, it was filmed at a school in my local area and I knew a couple of people in it.

Today, me and some friends went to this singing workshop thing with some of the Year 12s from our school. It's really for Year 12s and at the end they'll get some kind of qualification in leading vocal sessions. They will be going out to primary schools, but the Year 13s are just going to improve our technique and learn new warm-ups. It's meant to span two lessons, but all of the Year 13s involved have lessons straight after, so the woman leading it has decided to do practical while we're there and then do the theory when we've gone.

Anyway...
(I'm sorry, I'm rambling a little...that much detail probably wasn't necessary)

I was just sitting there waiting for the session to start; the four Year 13s on one side of the room and the four year 12s on the other. Then this woman from the main office came down and was like, "There's some more people here for the workshop" and in walked three of the kids off the Grease programme. It was so surreal! Like, obviously they're just schoolkids and they're not famous or anything, but until now two of them have only ever existed inside my TV screen (I already knew one of them from an orchestra I used to be in). It took my brain a few minutes to register their actual existence and stop going, "You were on the TV...you were on the TV..."

I'm such a freak. If they hadn't been on that programme, I probably wouldn't have even noticed when they walked in other than to say hi to Jess.

Anyway, I just thought I'd share that little moment of weirdness.

Bye

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